Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribute to him that Magdalena is often something to be enjoyed rather than endured. Some of his music is pleasantly (and all the more pleasantly for being well sung) in the florid, full-bosomed tradition of operetta; while the best of it has real color and wit, is truly folkish or stylish. On the good side, too, are some of Jack Cole's slithery dances, and the genuine if old-fashioned showmanship of Singing Comedienne Irra Petina (Song of Norway...
...aren't up on your baseball statistics, it's a fact that nine out of ten times the hidden ball play has worked, it has been pulled by the Italians. Freat actors, the Italians. Great actors, those Italians, And this ring reminds me of an extra great actor Harold Wit '29 and I met in Rome...
...victory running of Fanny Blanyers-Koen of Holland, the high-speed excitement of ski jumpers and bobsledders, the gruelling ordeal of the marathon, the complete mastery of corn-fed American track and field stars. Periodic shots of the crowds at Wembly Stadium have been chosen with taste and occasional wit, and the overall effect is pleasantly spectacular. The parts of the narration handled by Ted Husing and Bill Stern are not up to the work of several English commentators; but they are at least competent...
...second book of Philosopher George Santayana to win the popular accolade of the Book-of-the-Month Club (the first: his only novel, The Last Puritan). Readers who couldn't be bribed to look at a book of philosophy were beguiled by a style so urbane and a wit so civilized as to make even the cloistered life of a Harvard professor (Santayana taught there from 1889 to 1912) seem freighted with inner excitement...
...Santayana's philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil...